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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #390 on: March 15, 2021, 02:46:34 PM »
Up here in Canada, native ceremonies and prayers are held at schools and school functions an all other forms of prayer and worship are banned.  There is also a big fight here in Alberta over a proposed curriculum that teaches about the basic tenets of world religions including Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism.  So, that makes native spiritual practices the defacto state religion.  Think about that.

  It could be worse.

  Down in California, they're invoking the Aztec gods--and not just the nice ones like Quetzalcoatl; no, we're talking about Tezkatlipoka and Huitzilopochtli--as patrons of 'social justice.'
Is this smell of burnt plastic a short circuit with "cultural appropriation"?
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #391 on: March 15, 2021, 02:53:49 PM »
Can someone please speed up the inevitable meteor strike?

Sorry. We have no ability to immanentize the eschaton, despite 200 years of teaching to the contrary.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #392 on: March 15, 2021, 07:36:58 PM »
"The 'internal logic' {which} glosses over that slavery has affected family members of our userbase, and ignoring that is a large symptom of the problem."

Judas frickin' Priest. Hasn't it occurred to these people that the more public displays of breast-beating propriety demands be made before certain topics can be brought up or discussed, the less seriously either those who make such displays or those who hear them will take them?

Up here in Canada one of the chronic woke-isms a large number of community or public endeavours have been doing as a habit is to say, before any event starts, "We acknowledge we are on the territory of the tribe of...." (whichever First Nations tribe was historically native to the area in question).  And every time I hear this I just want more and more to jump up and yell out, "Excuse me! Excuse me, can I interrupt for a second here?  Is anyone here actually from that tribe?  Is anyone here actually prepared to sell their home at far below market rates to somebody of that tribe, and move back to where your own family came from?  No?  Then SHUT THE HELL UP and get on with the show," and sit down.

I haven't quite yet gotten to the level of annoyance required to ruin everybody else's evening this way, but I'm not taking bets on that lasting forever.

Love that shit. They'll never give the land back. They'll just use the opportunity to virtue signal and fuck the native tribes they stepped on to get there.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #393 on: March 15, 2021, 07:56:35 PM »
  It could be worse.

  Down in California, they're invoking the Aztec gods--and not just the nice ones like Quetzalcoatl; no, we're talking about Tezkatlipoka and Huitzilopochtli--as patrons of 'social justice.'


They're just posers if they aren't cutting out the hearts of football stars.

Love that shit. They'll never give the land back. They'll just use the opportunity to virtue signal and fuck the native tribes they stepped on to get there.

Sure, but they'll be sure to have a blue ribbon panel on the issue and write a fat cheque to a bunch of their political cronies!
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #394 on: March 15, 2021, 08:19:03 PM »
write a fat cheque

How horribly insensitive.

Cheque of size, dammit.   :D


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« Reply #395 on: March 15, 2021, 09:06:38 PM »
Can someone explain to me why a fucking nerdy ass hobby about pretending to be fruity elves needs any sort of real-world politics injected into it? I am not being flippant or rhetorical, I want an honest answer as to why people just can't leave their problems at the door to play a GAME. I play GAMES to get the fuck away from real life, I don't want to hyper-analyze stupid shit, I just want to get drunk and roll dice. These fucktards are sucking the joy out of something I have enjoyed since I was a kid and made it into an avenue to explore their sophomoric postmodern ideas. Sorry, I actually have two degrees in philosophy, most of this shit can easily be addressed after one semester of Aristotle. Fuck them. Seriously.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #396 on: March 15, 2021, 09:43:10 PM »
Can someone explain to me why a fucking nerdy ass hobby about pretending to be fruity elves needs any sort of real-world politics injected into it? I am not being flippant or rhetorical, I want an honest answer as to why people just can't leave their problems at the door to play a GAME. I play GAMES to get the fuck away from real life, I don't want to hyper-analyze stupid shit, I just want to get drunk and roll dice. These fucktards are sucking the joy out of something I have enjoyed since I was a kid and made it into an avenue to explore their sophomoric postmodern ideas. Sorry, I actually have two degrees in philosophy, most of this shit can easily be addressed after one semester of Aristotle. Fuck them. Seriously.

Its all about control...all totalitarians must force 'art' (in this case rpgs) to fit whatever their control pattern is, whether its called fascism, socialism, communism, or wokism.  Art in any form is a way to reach people and like everything else, it has to be viewed through the 'proper' lens.  Our elf games are just a small microcosm compared to a nation state, but it is an avenue for these people to exercise control over their little corner of the world.

This is why people like me are still holding on to DVDs, CDs, and books.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #397 on: March 15, 2021, 09:47:38 PM »
Can someone explain to me why a fucking nerdy ass hobby about pretending to be fruity elves needs any sort of real-world politics injected into it? I am not being flippant or rhetorical, I want an honest answer as to why people just can't leave their problems at the door to play a GAME. I play GAMES to get the fuck away from real life, I don't want to hyper-analyze stupid shit, I just want to get drunk and roll dice. These fucktards are sucking the joy out of something I have enjoyed since I was a kid and made it into an avenue to explore their sophomoric postmodern ideas. Sorry, I actually have two degrees in philosophy, most of this shit can easily be addressed after one semester of Aristotle. Fuck them. Seriously.

Watch some James Linday videos on youtube. (New Discourses) He does comprehensive videos on how critical theory and social justice infiltrate all aspects of society. From D&D to knitting.

TL;DW, an ideology with it's roots in several different philosophies has metastizied into thought cancer.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #398 on: March 15, 2021, 09:51:01 PM »
To some people, everything is political.  And, I mean everything, from the color of your socks, to the food you eat, to the people you hate because they don't think the same way.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #399 on: March 15, 2021, 09:51:58 PM »
Sorry, I actually have two degrees in philosophy, most of this shit can easily be addressed after one semester of Aristotle.
Why two? Didn't you get it right the first time?
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #400 on: March 15, 2021, 10:10:53 PM »
Why two? Didn't you get it right the first time?

Ask ten people for their opinion, you'll get ten different answers. Eleven if one is a philosopher.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #401 on: March 15, 2021, 10:42:37 PM »
Can someone explain to me why a fucking nerdy ass hobby about pretending to be fruity elves needs any sort of real-world politics injected into it? I am not being flippant or rhetorical, I want an honest answer as to why people just can't leave their problems at the door to play a GAME. I play GAMES to get the fuck away from real life, I don't want to hyper-analyze stupid shit, I just want to get drunk and roll dice. These fucktards are sucking the joy out of something I have enjoyed since I was a kid and made it into an avenue to explore their sophomoric postmodern ideas. Sorry, I actually have two degrees in philosophy, most of this shit can easily be addressed after one semester of Aristotle. Fuck them. Seriously.

Its all about control...all totalitarians must force 'art' (in this case rpgs) to fit whatever their control pattern is, whether its called fascism, socialism, communism, or wokism.  Art in any form is a way to reach people and like everything else, it has to be viewed through the 'proper' lens.  Our elf games are just a small microcosm compared to a nation state, but it is an avenue for these people to exercise control over their little corner of the world.

This is why people like me are still holding on to DVDs, CDs, and books.

100% this. As many people have turned away from traditional religions they have taken to secular ideologies in the hopes of achieving utopia on earth. A utopia, almost by definition, is a totalitarian society. A perfect society allows no flaws. If a flaw is found then utopia is thwarted, and the utopian believers can justify just about any action in the name of achieving their goals. There becomes a problem (among many others) that it’s difficult for even like minded utopianists to agree as to what is perfect as even a mild deviation can be seen as thwarting to perfect good.

A lot of traditional religions have worked out over thousands of years that heaven on earth is not possible, though the occasional small splinter/cult still tries to achieve this. The traditional religions spilled a lot of blood sorting this out over the centuries. ISIS is an example of a group trying to force a utopia (a perfect theocratic state) that has caused a lot of recent bloodshed.

Secular idealism/Utopianism seems to have really only come about since the 19th century, with the various forms of Marxism costing 100 million + lives in the name of achieving the workers’ paradise. (None of the many people I’ve known from former communist countries thought they were living in anything but a lousy prison at best. Well, there are two exceptions, but had both drunk the kook-aid as youths, yet both somehow came to the USA to make their lives.) Secular idealist (those just interested in reforms and improvements are a vanishing breed) keep telling themselves utopia is within reach, and dismiss the prior failures (“that wasn’t real communism/socialism”) because they have to or risk questioning their ideals. I’m afraid we’re in for a very long period of having to deal with the cult-like behavior of the secular idealists. I think the secular “pragmatists” recognize the danger, and is why some of them have reached out to moderate believers recently.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #402 on: March 16, 2021, 12:18:13 PM »
Can someone explain to me why a fucking nerdy ass hobby about pretending to be fruity elves needs any sort of real-world politics injected into it?

Because the people with enough leisure and money to spend as much time as they do on these games and enough IQ to enjoy them feel guilty about spending that much time on something that has (at a superficial glance) no real social redemptive value, so they desperately want to be able to point to something about them that says, "Here! We're not just wasting time, we're Improving The World!" I think the same impulse underlies most of the SJ invasion of fandom.

For myself I quote the words of my master C.S. Lewis, who said, "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival."
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #403 on: March 16, 2021, 01:53:37 PM »
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/gorman-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-pming-moderator-to-argue-about-somebody-elses-ban.878657/

No arguing with your betters, peasant.

It's anyone's guess who he was arguing about, though Rupert/Ramidel, and Tantavalist are the likely ones.

I feel sorry for him though.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #404 on: March 16, 2021, 02:53:52 PM »
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/gorman-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-pming-moderator-to-argue-about-somebody-elses-ban.878657/

No arguing with your betters, peasant.

It's anyone's guess who he was arguing about, though Rupert/Ramidel, and Tantavalist are the likely ones.

I feel sorry for him though.
You know? Reading those bans while listening to "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by Eurythmics is quite the experience.
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